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Electoral District Of Florey
Florey is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin. It is a suburban electorate in Adelaide's north-east, taking in the suburbs of Ingle Farm, South Australia, Ingle Farm, Modbury North, South Australia, Modbury North, Para Vista, South Australia, Para Vista, Pooraka, South Australia, Pooraka, Valley View, South Australia, Valley View, and Walkley Heights, South Australia, Walkley Heights, as well as parts of Modbury, South Australia, Modbury and Northfield, South Australia, Northfield. Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor electorate, and was first contested at the 1970 South Australian state election, 1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the Labor party until the 1989 South Australian state election, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Brown (Australian Politician)
Michael Edison Brown is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2018 state election. He represented Playford from 2018 to 2022 after which he transferred to Florey at the 2022 state election. Early life Brown was born in the mid-1970s at Modbury Hospital in Adelaide’s North Eastern suburbs and soon after was placed into state care. He has never known his biological parents and was adopted by Dennis and Lois Brown, an Adelaide couple. Brown attended Marion High School between 1998 and 1992, finishing his final year at Hamilton Secondary College in 1993. Early career At the age of 15, while attending school, Brown started working at a local restaurant Sizzler. After leaving school in 1993, he worked as an Administrative Officer with the Australian Government until he gained a position as a computer programmer at Adelaide-based Neller Software in 1996. Between 1998 and 2002, he worked as an Electorate Officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Para Vista, South Australia
Para Vista is a suburb in northern Adelaide, South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in .... It is bounded by Wright Road to the South. The northern boundary of the suburb is Montague, Nelson and Milne Roads, making an backwards-L shape of the suburb. The western end is Redhill Road, but the eastern side does not follow streets. History Para Vista Post Office opened on 13 January 1964 but was renamed Valley View in October of that year. References Suburbs of Adelaide {{Adelaide-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Snelling
John James Snelling (born 8 November 1972) is an Australian former politician. He was the Labor member for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Playford from the 1997 election until his retirement in 2018. Snelling left the Labor Party in 2021 to found the Family First Party. Background Prior to his election into politics, Snelling was an electoral officer, and a staffer in the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). Snelling was a supporter of the work of Christopher Pearson. Parliament Entering parliament in 1997 at the age of 24, he was the youngest member of the House of Assembly at the time. He was Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Rann Labor government from 2006 to 2010. He also served as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. He is aligned with Labor's right faction. A consequence of the major 2016 electoral redistribution was that two thirds of the voters in Snelling's electorate of Playford will be moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 South Australian State Election
State elections were held in South Australia on 11 October 1997. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), Liberal Party of Australia led by Premiers of South Australia, Premier of South Australia John Olsen defeated the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition (South Australia), Leader of the Opposition Mike Rann, forming a minority government with the The Nationals South Australia, SA Nationals and Independent (politics), independent MPs. Background Following the 1993 South Australian state election, 1993 landslide to the Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), Liberals, ending 11 years of Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor government, Labor now led by Mike Rann held just 11 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly, House of Assembly. The Liberals held 36 seats and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Bedford
Frances Ellen Bedford (born 5 November 1953) is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Florey from 1997 state election until 2022, first for the Labor Party and from 2017 as an independent. Early life Bedford was born in Sydney and moved to Melbourne and then Adelaide after the death of her mother. She became involved in politics and became an electorate officer for former Labor MP Peter Duncan. Parliament Bedford was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Florey at the 1997 state election for the Labor Party, defeating incumbent Sam Bass with 51% of the two-party-preferred (2PP) vote; in addition to the 1997 election win, Bedford also contested and won the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 elections as the Labor candidate. At the 2018 state election, she successfully ran as an independent candidate, winning 56.1% of the 2PP vote. Bedford's 2018 electoral victory was following her resignation from the Labor P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 South Australian State Election
State elections were held in South Australia on 11 December 1993. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Lynn Arnold, was defeated by the Liberal Opposition, led by Dean Brown, in a landslide victory. The Liberals won what is still the largest majority government in South Australian history. Background The campaign was dominated by the issue of the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia in 1991. The State Bank's deposits were legally underwritten by the Government of South Australia, putting South Australia into billions of dollars of debt. Labor premier John Bannon had resigned over the issue in 1992, being replaced by Lynn Arnold just over a year before the election. The Liberals also changed leaders in 1992, switching from Dale Baker to Dean Brown. Following the Labor leadership change and by early 1993, Newspoll had recorded a total rise of 13 percent in the Labor primary vote. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (South Australian Division)
The South Australian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), and often shortened to SA Liberals, is the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. It was formed as the Liberal and Country League (LCL) in 1932 and became the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945. It retained its Liberal and Country League name before changing to its current name in 1974. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Australian Labor Party (SA Branch). The party is led by Vincent Tarzia since 12 August 2024. During its 42-year existence as the Liberal and Country League, it spent 34 years in government, mainly due to an electoral malapportionment scheme known as the Playmander. The Playmander was named after LCL leader Sir Tom Playford, who was the Premier of South Australia for 27 years from 1938 until his election loss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 South Australian State Election
State elections were held in South Australia on 25 November 1989. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia John Bannon defeated the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition John Olsen. Labor won 22 out of 47 seats, and secured a majority of 24 with the support of two Independent Labor members. Background Parliamentary elections for both houses of the Parliament of South Australia were held in South Australia in 1989. John Bannon's Labor government had initially presided over an economic boom, but at the time of the election the economy had slowed due to the late 1980s recession. The Liberals' campaign accused Bannon of inaction during the poor economic conditions, capitalising on the fact that he was national president of Australian Labor Party at the time. Outcome The Liberals gained five seats (Adelaide, Bright, Fisher, Hayward and Newland), but Labo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 South Australian State Election
State elections were held in South Australia on 30 May 1970. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League led by Premier of South Australia Steele Hall was defeated by the Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Don Dunstan. Background The LCL had formed the government of South Australia for 35 of the previous 38 years due to a malapportionment favouring country areas over the Adelaide area. Deliberately inequitable electoral boundaries resulted in a country vote being worth twice a vote in Adelaide, even though Adelaide accounted for two-thirds of the state's population. This system was popularly known as the "Playmander," since it allowed Thomas Playford to remain Premier of South Australia for 26 years. In the latter part of Playford's tenure, the LCL could only hope to win a few seats in Adelaide. However, the LCL's grip on the country areas was such that it was able to retain power w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northfield, South Australia
Northfield is a suburb of the greater Adelaide, South Australia area. History The earliest known record of the name "Northfield" being used in reference to the area is 1852. This was a newspaper entry in the ''South Australia Register'' 4 October 1852 on the marriage notice of John Lewis to Harriet Ricketts of Northfield. Northfield was known as "Northfield, Dry Creek" as early as 1855 and the Free Labour stone quarry worked by Convicts at that time was later to become the Prison Quarry. The suburb was serviced by the former Northfield railway line and Northfield railway station, Adelaide, Northfield railway station from the opening of the line in 1857, until its closure to passenger traffic on 29 May 1987. The former terminus of the line, Stockade railway station, which was closed in 1961, was built to load stone from the quarries behind Female Labour Prison (which was originally called ''The Stockade'' - a name which survives in the local park of the same name). Sections of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modbury, South Australia
Modbury is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Tea Tree Gully. Modbury is located at the end of the Adelaide O-Bahn and is home to the Tea Tree Plaza shopping complex and Modbury Hospital. It was named Modbury by R. S. Kelly, on 1 September 1840, after his native town in Devonshire. History Robert Simon Kelly purchased Upper Dry Creek in 1842, naming his home, trehele, later referred to as Treehill, but generally known as Modbury Farm, the Modbury hotel, initially known by the name Modbury, is widely believed to have been constructed as a two story establishment by Robert Kelly, a tradesman, in September 1858, William Stoneham sought approval from the district council for a general license to operate a public house under the name Modbury Hotel, while Stoneham obtained the first license, ownership remained with Robert Kelly. Mr. Kelly's efforts eventually led to the emergence of the Modbury village in 1857, after he encouraged its development on his land, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
